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Skillet Lasagna

Well, it's back to school and back to real life. Yesterday started what will be an interesting semester for me. Things in my grad school career are changing. I'll be finished all my required math courses at the end of this semester! But then start comps. And I'm also teaching every day this semester -- something I haven't done since student teaching! It will be quite an adventure.

And somehow I had the notion that by the end of break I'd be caught up on blogging about meals I've made. If anything, I think I'm further behind. I guess that's how it goes.

So, here goes.

One day a week or two ago, I needed to decide what to make. NES had been craving lasagna for days. There is one thing you have to understand about the two of us and lasagna (well, a lot of meals), though. When NES thinks of lasagna, he thinks of meat. When I think of lasagna, I think of entirely veggies. Very different ideas. So, when I found a skillet lasagna recipe without too many veggies, it seemed like a good compromise. It also didn't require all the preparation regular lasagna does, and doesn't make a giant panful!

So, I decided to try it.

Overall, it was pretty easy. It was hard to break up the noodles without getting little pieces snapping off, and it was a little hard to evenly coat the noodles in the sauce. But even so, it really did kind of seem like lasagna when I was eating it. Maybe it was having to cut up the noodles that did it.

But, all that being said, it tasted awful good. And I even put onions in. And I couldn't find the dried basil or parsley, but somehow we have about a million jars of dried oregano. So I used that instead.

Even NES gave it a pretty good review -- I think I'll use spaghetti sauce next time, instead of the diced tomatoes, for his sake.

I love to bake. And make cupcakes. And take pictures. I like cooking, too.
But I'm in grad school, and math is my life. I am also a new wife. NES is my new co-conspirator, at least for cooking! And I have someone to bake for! We also finally have our own real kitchen! I cook and bake when I can. I thought that time was tight in college, but I'm learning there are different definitions of lack of time. Thyme is my favorite herb, though. So it all evens out?